Maine Is Four Seasons, Lots You Don’t Know About Here In The Pine Tree State.
If your rough guess was 4,613 islands along the Maine coast or a tidal waterways you are right, according to the Maine State Planning Office’s Maine Coastal Program.
But there are even more lake, river islands not in that figure and will have to get back to you on exact number with those added in. 6000 may be close, rounded off to the nearest thousand.
Maine is well know for potato production but where does the state rank nation wide where lots of places grow spuds. If you said the state of Maine, a major producer of potatoes, ranks fifth in the nation in acreage in 2009. But what about those Maine blueberries. Where do we stack up against the nation in that department? Maine produces 25% of all lowbush blueberries in North America.
So the state gets a blue ribbon, first place, making it the largest blueberry producer in the world.
Maine’s 24,291 hectares (60,020 acres) of blueberry crop requires close to 50,000 beehives for pollination of those blueberries too. The hives are trucked in from other states just to perform that task in the blueberry barrons of Maine.
Busy As A Maine Honey Bee.Busy as a bee..a Maine bee. The
Maine Bee Keepers Organization is active, vibrant, needed.
Bees pollinate our native plants from Maine potatoes to blueberries and everything wild from lupine to brown eyed susans. What kind of bees live in Maine? The state wants to keep the Maine honey bees healthy, free of parasites so they can do their vital job.
You’ve heard of the killer bees, the African bees and wonder if they are more of a threat or cell phones, all the radio frequencies that affect our wing busy insects with a job to do.
Locally grown Maine food, produce and fruit that comes from an area farm is healthy, economical, a fun social event.
Watch the Maine farmers market video. Houlton Maine has a downtown Market Square outdoor farmer’s market to make it easy to feed your family the right stuff.
Local Maine farming is good for families. You see your parents, brothers and sisters all day long during the spring planting, summer cultivating, hoeing, picking process. I grew up on a Maine family farm and like many in my area, it is part of my heritage. childhood.
Maine Is Fewer People, More 4 Season Scenery. Plain And Simple Beauty.
Maine is a state blessed with interesting places and intriguing people.
And emphasis on more unspoiled hidden spots, way way less people. So in the summer in Maine, what is there to do for fun, recreation? Have to start with a question because you are not just traveling here for the day. Way way too much to do in a few hours in a state as big as Maine, this dynamic.
The question is “what is your idea of camping”? Is it a half million dollar land yatch bigger than most people’s homes, with a Mercedes or Land Rover in toll. Big, flashing with air conditioning, satellite television, pull outs to make it even bigger?
Or is camping mean you, a back pack, rolled up sleeping bag, ground mat, some food and sleeping under the stars at a state park like Baxter where Mt Katahdin and all those hiking trails await your inspection? Or maybe somewhere in between, say a Maine log cabin on a lake with loons singing or crying depending on the day, night, your perspective?
Because you are here to kayak, fish, bike, hike or just eat Maine seaford from live fresh lobsters, steamed clams from a coastal pound, you need to stay somewhere. Oh, forgot to mention the slew of bed and breakfasts, old fashioned yesteryear inns, victorians where you can shut your eyes, lay your head down to prepare, energize for another day.
So whether you want to white water raft a rifer, go whale watching or to add to your Maine photo collection of rock bound coastal lighthouses, where you stay, where and how you sleep is part of the intial query to determine what you might like to do. The place you stay in Maine, complements the surroundings you find yourself in. Maine is one big state parked up here in the right hand corner of the country. So far north, some would argue we are really in Canada. Or should be.
The state of Maine official tourism site lists several what to do for fun in Vacationland options. Our Discover Northern Maine tourist site helps with images, links, information to get you up to speed about the place, the state too. Or maybe just ME images, over 1200 of them played one at a time can help you decide on your option for fun the next trip to Maine.
So your stay, trip, vacation to Maine and what to fill your days and evenings doing for distraction, fun depends first on where would you like to stay.
And just what is your idea of camping, how you define the word because in Maine, there are options.
Many choices from hidden woods lodges, hand built log cabins to ocean view pent houses. Or just bring your tent, some food and keep it simple camping at a the over 30 Maine state parks. Cooking, grilling on an open fire, with family, loved ones, friends experiencing all Maine has to offer surrounding you. Maine, get here as quick, as often as you can.
Houlton Maine Is On The New Brunswick Canada US Border.
When a person considering relocation, retirement, investment in a Maine small town, which most of the state’s are size wise, many factors make the short list of what to consider.
Oh sure many already know about the four season Maine recreation from hunting, fishing, camping vacation trips. They have the what to do for fun part all figured out.They like the low cost Maine real estate factor. But had a Connecticut real estate buyer’s first question be “tell me about your local library”.
The woman is a ferocious reader. Figures the size, quality, local support of that Maine town library reflects on the people who live in the community. Luckily, Houlton Maine’s Cary Library is pretty incredible, offering one of the highest circulation rates for the state of Maine. Summer reading programs for kids, Chistmas stories read in front of the open fireplace, a heck of a geneology department, and size. The origial structure an Andrew Carneigie Library prototype with a large addition to blend in with the stone structure.
For others, tell me about your hospital in Maine. Is it small, a band aid station or does it offer a variety of services, and is not so deep in the red spending wise that the doors are about to be bolted, locked, chained shut. Luckily, Houlton Maine again shines with the health care element. Besides OB-GYN, cardiac, and a slew of clinics, in and out patient services focused on preventative health care rather than reactive use of resources, it is well run, in the black.
Georgraphically Houlton ME Regional Hospital is well located unlike some areas of Maine where just too many hospitals serving the same smaller population area.
Areas where none of the hospitals are doing so hot. So decent library, a hospital served by Life Flight helicopters, local ground ambulances, that’s two criteria some use checked off the list in a postive way.
And don’t forget everyone is impressed with the low crime, four season scenery of Maine. All those clean lakes, streams, and rolling fields, massive wooded tracts of land. But people, less people and friendlier people is what Maine is really known for. So question number three on the short list Maine real estate buyers ask is tell me how many traffic lights you have. Less people, less traffic, less lights. In Houlton Maine we have a whopping total of five traffic lights. You don’t need more and the thought, debate of maybe we need another one heading in to the hosptial off US Rt 1 causes resistance. It has not happen. Interstate 95, the gateway from US RT 1, RT 2, RT 2A and the Trans Canada highway into the Atlantic Provinces and the Walmart entrance account for two of those five traffic lights.
For years there was only one traffic light in the center of the town of Houlton Maine near the Post office, across from the Court House and at the time, a big brick hotel, the Northland.
And two doctors, a husband and wife team considering where to move to to open up their practices stopped at a Maine red traffic light.
Our sole Houlton Maine traffic light for many years. And while whipping out a map, studying it, they got a little engrossed. Forgetting they were at a red light that ended up changing twice. And the cars behind them did not honk. That was the sign for them that this is the place to start a family, medical practice, to live with life.
Maine Lakes, Get Wet, Beat The Summer Heat, Gorgeous Sunshine, Weather.
The summer of 2009 in Houlton Maine in Aroostook County was not so memorable.
It rained, rained some more. And then more rain soaked the countryside and took the fun of outdoor hiking, camping, visits to Maine. The tail end had a few decent days but nothing like this summer in Maine. Sure its hot but with 6000 lakes, hundreds of miles of sandy Maine coastline, all those beaches in Vacationland are hopping, thriving, busy.
Local vacation, Maine tourism businesses pump healthy streams of income, pull down sales to help line the hungry state coffers thanks to all this picture perfect summer weather.
No complaints with the high temperatures and strong sunshine, blue skies. We’ll gladly take it. Enjoy it, relish more of the same.
Often for someone not living in Maine, with no exposure or experience with the place, myths about our weather, winter especially, creep in to conversations. Corrections are needed and if you must ask someone for their opinion, broad brush recollections or thoughts, make sure they have ever been to Maine first.
Showing folks outside the state of Maine portal this video helps set the record straight on winter weather and dismisses the crazy sweeping statement we all own dog sleds, live in igloos, have twenty minutes of daylight all winter long thinking. This ME winter recreation video helps show you the real Maine, what we do for fun and to avoid couch lock, blisters on our TV channel remote while surfing indoors.
Maine’s summer hot weather this week. There is a nice breeze, plenty of waterfront to take a dip, cool off and enjoy the sunshine that we are bathed in day in, day out. This is summer living using those open front porches, decks to BBQ, communicate outdoors with family, friends, neighbors through out the Pine Tree State. Maine, grab your camping gear, gas up the car or SUV, head to Vacationland. The water is fine, the weather overhead gorgeous offering no better location for summer vacations, escapes, some much needed time off.
